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John Porcellino reads from Map of My Heart
Map of My Heart celebrates the twentieth anniversary of John Porcellino’s seminal and influential comics zine, King-Cat Comics, which he began self-publishing in 1989, and which has been his predominant means of expression ever since. In this collection, Porcellino, while living in isolation and experiencing the pain of divorce, crafts a melancholic, tender graphic-ballad of heartbreak and reflection. Known for his sad, quiet honesty, rendered in his signature deceptively minimalist style, Porcellino has a command of graphic storytelling as sophisticated as the medium’s more visually intricate masters. Few other artists are able to so expertly contemplate the sadness, beauty, and wonder of life in so few lines.
John Porcellino was born in Chicago in 1968, and began drawing and writing at an early age, compiling his work into little hand-made booklets. His acclaimed self-published zine, King-Cat Comics and Stories, begun in 1989, has found a devoted worldwide audience, and is one of the most influential comics series of the past twenty years.
For more information please visit www.king-cat.net or www.drawnandquarterly.com.
Also on the bill is musician and poet PATRICK PORTER who will read from his work and perform an acoustic set.
“Beneath the crude linework and dream-journalism, Porcellino has crafted an affecting scrapbook of a part–time artist’s life. The decade-plus remove from these comics’ initial publication only adds another layer of poignancy, since so many of its concerns are those of a young man, unaccountably adrift in a decade geared towards his generation… A–”
—THE ONION AV CLUB“Porcellino is a master at miniature poignance.” –ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
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Barred For Life Interviews
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Ethan Gilsdorf Geeks Out at Quimby's
Come commune with your inner fantasy fan or gaming geek with Ethan Gilsdorf, author of the travel memoir / pop culture narrative “FANTASY FREAKS AND GAMING GEEKS: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms.”
The book is an exploration and celebration of fantasy and gaming subcultures. On a quest that begins in his own geeky teenage past and ends in our online gaming future, former D&D addict Gilsdorf crisscrosses America, the world, and other worlds—from Boston to Wisconsin, France to New Zealand, and Planet Earth to Middle-earth to the realm of Aggramar. He asks game-players and fantasy fans—old, young, male, female, able-bodied and disabled—what attracts them to fantasy worlds, and for what reasons. What he discovers is funny, poignant, and enlightening.
Gilsdorf was an obsessive Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) player back in the 1980s. He quit the fantasy role-playing game when he graduated from high school. Decades later, at age 40, Gilsdorf found a box of his old D&D gear in his parents’ basement. The discovery inspired him to write the book. Fantasy and gaming subcultures covered in the book include readers of J.R.R. Tolkien’s books and viewer of the Lord the Rings movies, players of the online game World of WarCraft, and participants in the medieval reenactment group the Society for Creative Anachronism and fantasy conventions like Dragon*Con. Gilsdorf is also launching a contest from the book’s website, the Great Geek Giveaway, which offers prizes for those who share their geekiest moment. People can submit essays, photos or video during the month of September.
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Twitter Updates for 2009-09-16
- Come to "Brett Eugene Ralph & Steve Albini read at Quimby's!" Sunday, September 20 from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Brett… http://bit.ly/X1tr2 #
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Top 10
Say yes to matching headbands. This is for the week of 9/6/09-9/12/09
1. Make Your Place: Affordable Sustainable Nesting Skills by Raleigh Briggs (Microcosm) $7.00
2. Bitch #44 $5.95
3. Big Questions #12 A Young Crows Guide to Hunting by Anders Nilsen (Drawn & Quarterly) $5.95
4. Sleeper Car by Theo Ellsworth (Secret Acres) $6.00
5. Strange Tales #1 (Marvel) $4.99
6. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol 3 Century #1 1910 by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (Top Shelf) $7.95
7. Adbusters #85 $8.95
8. Serious Drawings: H Is For Holly Crap by Marc Johns (TeNeues) $19.95
9. Multiforce by Mat Brinkman (Picturebox) $15.00
10. Butt #27 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals: The Straight Issue $9.90 -
Twitter Updates for 2009-09-13
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New Stuff This Week
Holy smokes! It’s a banner week for awesome new stuff, so hold on tight!
Granta #108 The Special Chicago Issue ed. by John Freeman (Granta) $16.99 – With cover by Chris Ware and featuring Aleksandar Hemon, Don DeLillo and more!
Proximity #5 The Photo Issue Fall 2009 $12.00 – This issue is devoted to International Contemporary Photography, featuring artists such as Che Onejoon,Vincent Dermody, Caroline de Vries, Kim Keever, Jaimie Warren, Cassini Probe, Bert Stabler, Karsten Lund, Robby Herbst, Post Typography, Laura Pearson, and more.
All and Sundry Uncollected Work 2004-2009 by Paul Hornschemeier (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Butt #27 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90 – The Straight Issue!
Marquis #46 $19.00
Pop Up City by Cleveland Urban Design $20.00
Raymond Pettibone Devil Tote Bag $34.00
Group Work Zine: Compilation of Quotes About Collaboration by Temporary Services $1.50
Suzann Gage: Temporary Conversations by Temporary Services $3.00
Reich #6 by Elijah J. Brubaker (Sparkplug) $4.00 – The continuing saga of Wilheim Reich. In comics form!
Process Recess vol 3 The Hallowed Seam by James Jean (Adhouse) $34.95
Achewood vol 2 Worst Song Played On Guitar by Chris Onstad (Dark Horse) $15.95
Red Monkey Double Happiness Book by Joe Daly (Fantagraphics) $22.99
The Squirrel Machine by Hans Rickheit (Fantagraphics) $18.99
Grownups Are Dumb No Offense by Alexa Kitchen (Denis Kitchen) $8.99 – By possibly the youngest professional cartoonist in the world!
The Art of Tony Millionaire (Fantagraphics) $39.95
Inspired Zine Package: Zines from Mark Todd Joel Nakamura and Tim Mantoani (Mark Murphy Design) $12.00 – It’s a beauty! And you can’t get this thing just anywhere. Click on the link above to find out more!
Pinups #10 Scott $14.00 – Let’s hear it for the boy. Named Scott. Who is naked in these photos.
John Cage Book of Days 2010 (John Cage Trust) $25.00 – Let John Cage help you to remember the date.
Giant Robot #61 $4.99
Love and Rockets New Stories vol 2 by The Hernandez Brothers (Fantagraphics) $14.99
Sinus Ogynus Doll and Loady McGee Dolls $39.99 – Based on the characters featured in Johnny Ryan’s Angry Youth Comix.
Censored 2010 by Project Censored (Seven Stories) $19.95
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Twitter Updates for 2009-09-12
- Come to "Scott Inguito and Sandra Lim" Saturday, September 19 from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. A reading of poetry by two… http://bit.ly/3cdAXQ #
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Grant Reynolds Signs Comic Diorama
Grant Reynolds has been making and self-publishing comics for the better part of his life. By the time you see him at this event he will have turned thirty years old only a few weeks prior. You might wanna wish him a happy birthday (belated) when you see him sitting at the table signing copies of his new book published by Top Shelf entitled Comic Diorama, or even ask how his summer was. If you’re thinking to yourself, “Grant Reynolds, where have I heard that name before?” …well, it might have been from The Skeleton News or Trubble Club, or you may have read one of his books, like Smaller Parts or To the Mouth of the Source…or maybe you both just talked about movies in someone’s kitchen at a party. In any case, if he owes you money, never returned that book he borrowed, or you’ve just got some personal score you’ve been waiting to settle, you’ll know where to find him on October 6th at 7pm.
“Chicagoan mini-comics mastermind.” — Al Burian, Burn Collector
For more info: http://www.myspace.com/grantreynolds
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Hans Rickheit Presents The Squirrel Machine
WHAT IS THE SQUIRREL MACHINE? A rodent ensnarement device? A mechanism for concealing one’s guarded harvest? An anachronistic fable for the convulsive elite? A nugatory diversion for the subliterate? The answer to that question can be obtained in the form of an unusual new graphic novel in a book-signing tour ploughing its way through the northeast coast this Autumn.
THE SQUIRREL MACHINE is the brainchild of HANS RICKHEIT, who will be making appearances to autograph books, make sketches and speak personally to curious readers.
The Plot: Situated in a fictive 19th Century New England town, two brothers, Edmund and William Torpor confront public scorn when they reveal their musical creations built from strange technologies and scavenged animal carcasses. Driven to seek a concealment for their aberrant activities, they make a startling discovery. Will they divine the mystery of THE SQUIRREL MACHINE?
This book is a meticulously-rendered creation that defies all known genres. It can best be described as “PROTO-SURREALIST” or “RETRO-FUTURIST” Disregarding labels and buzz-phrases, it is ultimately an immutably strange and haunting narrative that transcends known logics and presumptive dream-barriers. A distillation of subconscious beauty and madness. A dangerous object for the incautious. A revelation for the undernourished crypto-seeker .
HANS RICKHEIT was born in 1973 and grew up in New England, lived in the basement of an eccentric art gallery/performance space called the Zeitgeist Gallery from 1997-2002, and currently resides in Philadelphia. Aside from his many self-published efforts, he has appeared in many anthologies, including PAPER RODEO, HOAX and KRAMERS ERGOT.
“Rickheit is a vastly under-seen talent.” – Tom Spurgeon, THE COMICS REPORTER
www.squirrelmachine.org, www.thesquirrelmachine.blogspot.com www.chromefetuscomics.com